Show C r J Jl l BIG MONEY f IN Its lis Vos bast Coal Coni and nn Iron fiel fields s to Lo lie to tile the World iI d 1100 II bT lIra drank k O Car Carpenter pea penter ShanghaI Oat Ocl II a 1 of r China Chilia will form lorm am Import port apt In ID the 01 the titi war Ind The Chinese not lIot send scand nn an of 01 tIU the or of the corrupt oMelet Is t a Work fork or of years and the mOlt or of the honey Olley will probably have baw to tG toW W be by TherM la II nil no doubt but ut ChIn Chinn her rough to pay rte Its war debt II a thousand times over oel It has ha Ion long the richest cool coal country In the world and Ind the railroad ote bate discovered d coat and Iron almost The rhe Germane hIVe have hound lit tang t and minet fOt gold Rold and silver ar are Ming operated In place III at s I profit still lUll no one knows just what China contains and the powers should hould undoubtedly take advantage of the alt It Hatton and demund Ii a careful hutty of the empire Such Buh A survey WOUld be Invaluable tu to the and Ind Industrial world WI AurIt some Iome of 01 the fortunes l or of the next years will come from Irom the development lit of Chinas The Ii Ie I a very rr cave ot of Aladdin which needy only the genii or modern progress It It to mankind Let me VII y you Q a falat Idea or of Ita po J I flare gathered about 1 It tram fill all I find much I In the library or of time Shanghai 1111 club ha baa paper on China which are elsewhere and J I have much from the mouths of at Chinese dall and travelers Scone SOUle ot of the Lt bed lt work ever 01 d out OUI here was fal by Raphael L I n d who was em employed h by the Chinese government ss at a l engineer lie spent flue yean Yeats In It a tour around the world orld end mleh ot of till this time lime was devoted to 10 China More recent are re those ot of lOn and nul lull or of the Ibe en and surveyors ot of the railroad which hw have from Crom the government CHINAS I ml NSE COM COAL First take lake the two great Industrial COAl and Iron China It has ones on ot of the Ihl beat labor populations ot of the globe and In this age 01 ot of steel with coal coalIron coalIron Iron and mod modern machinery It will be s a factor In the worlds INIS It IA ii the roil oal on earth I la coal CORI an and Iron Iroll In every iery province and Ind several eral tiC of the Ir arc III a rich a as Pennsylvania In Ih e minerals sot Not far Clr west welt of oC P Pe Pekin kin there then II a great lIat c coal ol bed which oz oa tend along the ot of UlI through gh the province ot of and thence down through Ronan and utI lI Into another suet cod II and Iron J In on nn Ih the south side o othe of the rbt ar art Important coal Nelda In eight of at the below 4 J The Coal COlli Fields of the 11 ty Are Arf and Whit What th they Pekin Which has lias Al AI Already read ready the of Anglo Italian Syndicate Which It Ilse OGO a Coal ot of the Valley lIlt and tM the H Re Ions fit of Copper and Its ble Gold and aDd BUy Co tIM In do Atones and now Ilow One T a Will Tomb Tombstones stones for tor Ih the American end nl Opals Opal How is II Don Dena and How flow Can Be Secured V VY FReINK G j I S I ri n If t j ti i I I J JI Jt I t I j jI I I I j H fJ i I l t tt if t 1 Y L 1 1 L L LI I Y i L X I Iy y l t f I 1 f I t T M l I I t tI J I Y X t i take Make Monuments I 4 L i L 0 r r 4 t r r o 10 i t n u r i the Kiang sad Inthe In Intile tile the province of Yun is II abDul the tho Size cf cC C California It II I almost u as big III a as the tle combined areas ot of and Wl Wisconsin It i lies lIell right on 01 the bonier of nt and will be reaped by the which is 18 projected from to China Th The river dorms a pert part 0 of Ito It north northern ern boundary and Ind through It the cOil coat can have to IRan many thousand tiles of at water wlter way WIY reaching hundreds of or of has hall a Population of more than eleven millions old Ind with Its coalIron coal Iron copper and other minerals minerai It will probably be a great and man rent center r The Th Sta P hat has already III al ready a trade of Gt two end Ind anhalt mil million lion dollars II a year A part or of which Is II coal cal The mines have ben been w worked for tor age The province le II and the I coal oal both bolh bituminous and anthracite Iles on the Ihl edges of a great plateau In the center tenter of at an elevation Ota ot ota a mile the seam Other beds are ato near Ih the and Slang riven They are said ald to 10 tw bP easily eally worked COAl IN GERMAN Cm A I by br tit the n tin I lin had rich real Idl The Th minis Within f forty lY or lr fin fitly tulles ot of ba bay and Inti emend I nd through the mountainous regions hack of at It Our OUI consul at r recently received a report made upon some ot of them by a aI I engineer lie Re reports a vein ot of coal our feet reet thick In county count which he says is fa rr for sale lale It 11 Is II cI close to nm ther mine which I is now being opral ill At a Near this pairs mine there II 1 a bed bd tWe feet three inches thick could cout bp be worked on sham and three miles another which has haa just been sold lold for far ldah to lu the Germans Ont One or of the mines ot of Ihl thus region is II already turning n nut 0 tuns lunK ot of coal every Iery da dann day nn and another hoe ha produced coil coal tu to the amount ot of Hp 1 I F I 1 Then art am In that re tor than Ihl this tome MOine vt If fie tn have been working fG In t Just bark balk I of at 1 there are thousands of Chinese coal They work hou a lay for from alx Ix to ten cents The mining I is e The coal tl la dug out with pick and carried from the In raw narks ak on nn kr bark backs ot of It I bs then Ihn put Into Inlo fliP I harrows from one to 10 our baskets being fa un on th the which JUt out OUI rn II I o h side 11 lt the 1 wheel It is 18 harrows pushed 11 by nn men that the coal Is Ip taken laken to the 4 l Rome Mome of lh Ih a 10 have sails lIall Only little an bl be on a barrow and time Ihl rates are w 10 that It costa 6 to III n a aton ton from f the e lall to n II dl die tint tam ot of seventy miles dal al v orth a tan Irn at the mill wile fur for if i a ton Ion a afew few mil away owa Till The arrears are now n a rail mod I h these mines th bed Is completed find and tit Ih ve are II tin on th ho Iy As 1 soon nl as r 1 lieu It I It II v be put PUI Int In t and thle t ual oal laVe have en t tu to the Ihl sea AL s t The Tbt y n lep I k in of the most a rl r f th world It ItI Itis I is over OH 3 1 miles mile cut 1111 I It elm at bisects The o can tin ill AU Up it 11 Into I III as astar tar rill as York YOlk I Is distant from hl hi calfO cago and with U its tributaries it 11 fur more IMre than hut miles mile or of n navi navigable vl gable abl waterways There pre are vast coil coal ta which could pull easily he be n to the he Y le II so III ot of the Shares coal beds which I describe further on Th They are arl the 1111 Mrea In ChIna anti II a short railway 11 g them to till the Iten river r w i o the Yang at al Th Inee 01 tar from t tl amt there ther art are coal cual nil 1111 a aT tit the valley I urn told t ti Iy y 1 are to he be found lIea neat Nap Nail king nr lIk and from Chinking td la the borders of sire 1 Bishop a coal mine In on the e 2000 balk back from the sea She says lAY II the aam wits 18 tour four feet thick and Ind was II 4 fl a bird bard bituminous nature It wall reached by a tunnel six eh fret long lone In Wl was I a wooden tramway and the coal was wall carried out In baskets on wheels The mine 18 work worked day any nL ht In of oC t tWelve hours the miners being ald ld 14 11 cents n a day with withIn In an allo allowance oft of meals or of riot rice The coal t 0 rents a ton In labor anti aK altar awa away from th the minI mines It was Willi for 1116 11 I a ton Ibn In the upper rear Such au there are coal oal mines In time Ihl side atlle ot of a cliff which b by gel hung from the tap 11 with ropes ropel of at plaited bamboo Th miners bring the coal oal out nut upon th the galleries alII and thence Club Ihl It down m III baskets Into the boats boat on A There Ir are thousands ot of nb tames both along the and In other parts varia 0 of China One Oe of the greatest troubles Is water The hl neso nelO have nu no good pump and as al won lOOn II as lh the water liler comes I the he nIl lh they y Leave Ivo them ore seldom Idum put putdown putdown down more than het cetIn In the of try trying ing 1111 modern pum pumps WU attempted The pumps were ordered from tUm and were brought Into Inlo the coal regions region at great Nt coat Cotto Th They Y were allowed to lie liethen then UIrt And rust until thieves had stolen tolen miD many ot of the parts Then Theft an engineer was 11 brought broucht from to 10 put them u up but bUI was 01 una unable lo to 10 do so 10 The old American ot of Russell Ru ell i iCo Co when wilen they Iby owned the starters on I the got cot all their Copt from There Will was III an explosion from fire re the Chinese thought the devil had gotten the mine min and It I Is shut to 10 his II day HOW TU THIC DEMON FLOOD d MINK Another or of Chin se ocCurred to In one of It the muses which lie Iles near long Shin Shan on the lien Tein railway These Thele mines are aMi lh the In China they employ about men and IDIl have hae n In output ul tad ot 1600 tone ot of coal anal a aday day Than i have th them m end Can la say that thy they are arf not nol up to 10 date II In their II and nl modern 1 methods ot of w The Ihl mines n a t are operated by byC C under foreign supervision Not lun lung ago alro an a nw mining engineer from London was brought to take char charge of them 1111 went through the min mines and anda was a surprised In b find a large lare block or of orI I the h beet coal oal In th the center or of on one of them I He asked why It II had bill not 1101 been n talon out nut and was waa told that It was al the leafs hll or of a water demon dmm tJ Upon On In h he found that th the former engineer had left Itt I partly to In please tilt the Chinese directors and partly because hp he thought might It be something In the theory rill file new man said Id tang the water demon Lets 1111 rpt get out the coati The till dill protested but as al he In it tided Ih they y put In u a blast and tired Orel It Rhen I the he wall willi ot of coal eoal fell a great ten I dream rushed In flooding the mine and up arce access to many chambers then the water In mine has hll been controlled although the tilt cost or of pumps have http been Tine Th or of coal was wal In reality a great reat pipe tilt In which a subterranean river Sowed through th the minI mine Th The coal cORI had bad been rut rUI out nut about It but the pipe hall had been left intact until the engineer or ordered dered red It dynamited The Chinese must mut have the river At last they t ed upon It as 1 holding R a demon GOOD AS P I yen ou will take your our map ot of China ChinaI I a look at the province lying wt west ot of C I bordered on the north by Mon 1 and on the lime by the winding n o you will see the Pennsylvania t he me Chinese It la III the pro d of at which is II to con greatest and richest cool coal area Brea ot of he 1 e globe glob It la It just about as big bigas as Illinois and It hu has four times as III litany II n people It le I of 01 much the acme shake loe as Illinois and like Illinois has a great river running about It Its II western anti and southern It contains Iron an anti l limestone In vat vast quantities and In Inthe inthe the future It will probably be the great reat eat and section ot of the thit world This Thill province has bas been recently ed It by Noah Drake ot of the Im Chi Cili Chinese nese lIeM University ot of Tien Ite II ks of the anthracite area RI as great greater er r than that thai ot of Pennsylvania and tU esti estimates mates that It contains Inure mure than six Ix hundred tolls ot of coal There Is II quit R at much bituminous as al anthracite anti the deposits of at both bolh kinds lire are be beyond yond Ond d wonderful Shansi is a mountainous country with witha lib liba a great relit In III It ire center In R more than a mile above the sea ileA This t is l made ot of sandstone hale emote timid conglomerate of at tea 1111 man many different colors as the ot of the Colorado can you yon The top lop ut of the plateau tl is covered with It a rich loses deposit I A bet bed of at oil clay or dirt from Ih Live hundred to II a thousand feet reet deep which le II with water Under the dirt lIrt there are Rrt vest 1 deposits ot at coal coni and Iron exposed b by bythe the Wit water There le Is a great 1 deal ot of coal COlli about time edges of at the plateau and In inthe the It lies Ilea at an 1111 elevation ot of about hundred feet CHt In horizontal beds and is to be seen een whar ever the rivers have cut ut through The anthracite seams art are unbroken over an area lrea ot of more than thirteen t thousand housa nd square miles They Ire are ot of R a from I to 10 f tt feet antI and of an I average ot of Cort forty tet het The anthracite gives from S to 10 per cent ot of uh ash and It II but bUI slightly Imp Impregnated with The bituminous COAl fields of Shansi have hae an area o of square mil tulles or orau oras I au as great II as that of If and Connecticut They Ile III In the western II turn rt ot of the not oot far lar from II the Yellow and are spotted hero here Mil and there with deposits ot of or limestone lUll and rich Iron 0 ore WORTH MILLIONS S SA A hart or of thin thIB rich territory rr h tree been gobbled up b by some bt big capitalists under the name ot of the Pekin Syndicate These The men Inen have hAV a 8 grant from Crom the em emperor and have farmed out the develop development ment of J their mines to lan syndicate which claims claim a oa ot of Th The of the Pekin Jellin III cite Include the rights to all the p pe of at and to I a large lare part ot of It its coal cORI Int and Iron Prof Noah Drake aay they have on one bed of oC coal cal which contains more than tolls of fine anthracite The fhe bed le 18 feet thick on the Ive average I The They have other deposits which Ire are even more metre valuable Their concessions lie In central lull and southern and extend over or Into and the regions on below Kolow the Yellow river comprising a territory greater than the whole ot of New l and brining l be richest oal ever made cm s MU MINES ES ESI I find a general bullet here that China Is II In the Ih metal and the geological surreys 0 1 tar far made Iliad point polut to the lilt same The Th Genre say AY that there is III plenty ot of gold In Chan lung and that tine Chinese there are washing It out ot of the Gold Goldis I is now being mined In Mongolia In InIn and andIn In different parts part of oC Manchuria Th The company is II working plat plater er deposits not nol far from Mukden It Ithal has hal already exported something like n a million dollars worth of oC coarse gold lollI There I ii gold In In south lOuth southwestern western ChinA There Thull are placer lie de deposits posits alon along the lien river and also alon along tine western highlands on the her bor herders Iera ders of found sliver In different and lead In t twenty went four In the le II mixed with lIh lead Time The has also tin zinc rind ond Iron LORd Lead Is III also allO In polite opposite the Island of 01 I ss la and in III not II a great dip tante tance from Crom Canton P IN rOPPEn Time The big ble dividends now being paid on copper mint mines In the thi United Stat States may III at some IOme time be pAralleled lit III China The copper ore Is II rich and It is III said to exist In every nery province It Is III being mined In where the tbt emperor has hili tied antI and also alo In b w the h hu a white cap capper op opper per which I is mixed with tin Iron nickel and lead and It inns hall r mixed with silver lIver tin and amid lead Ip The copper mines are now hr by native who ha have bl been n paying about a cent 1111 a 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